Living Doubt
Subtitle: Essays concerning the Epistemology of Charles Sanders Peirce (Synthese Library)
Contributors: G. Debrock (Editor); M. Hulswit (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: July 31, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780792328988
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; Literary Criticism; Philosophy; Peirce, Charles S.; Movements - Pragmatism; Epistemology; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy / Epistemology; Philosophy-History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy-Movements - Pragmatism; 1839-1914; (Charles Sanders),; Congresses; Peirce, Charles S
First sentence: It is an intriguing paradox of present Western culture that, while the dream of a unified system of scientific knowledge has never been more alive, there is a growing doubt that any universally valid knowledge may ever be possible.